December Update 2 (v0.8b)

A cheerful BARK from the Dog! This update changes how Loose Fugitives work (Now called Fugitive NPCs), adds a larger, more powerful Fugitive NPC, adds Emoji to Chat Bot messages, and other smaller changes.

Feature: Fugitive NPCs

Removed: Fugitive NPCs will no longer spawn randomly

Added NPC: Fugitive I

Health: 1

(When Health goes to 0, the Fugitive will be defeated)

Power: Kick 1

(This is the number of armor removed / kick stacks added per Kick)

This NPC’s kicks also reduce Kick Immunity duration by 1 second.

Has a chance to drop an item on defeat.

Added NPC: Fugitive II

Health: 3

Power: Kick 3

This NPC’s kicks also reduce Kick Immunity duration by 1 second.

Has a chance to drop an item on defeat.

Feature: Fugitive Raids

Fugitive NPCs spawn naturally in new events called Fugitive Raids.

Fugitive Raids unlock once Great Bone V has been achieved.

Fugitive Raids occur on a timer that can range from 5 to 15 minutes.

The timer is visible at all times.

As soon as a Fugitive Raid starts, the next event begins counting down.

Items

The chance of finding higher Tier items has been reduced significantly.

[Secret Agent] I, II, III, IV

Description Updated

Passive: The next Player or NPC to KICK the Dog becomes imprisoned and this item loses 1 charge. This effect cannot be triggered more than once within [900, 750, 600, 450] seconds. If this item is not at full charge, it is destroyed on drop.

[Repair] II

Now gives more Gold if you pick it up at full charge.

[Repair] III

Now gives more Gold if you pick it up at full charge.

[Friendship Gem] III

Now gives 25 Friendship (up from 20) on pickup.

[Friendship Gem IV]

On Pick Up: Immediately adds 50 Friendship to the Dog.

[Steak] I, II, III, IV

All tiers updated. No longer removes Armor.

On Use: Reduce Kick Immunity time by [25, 50, 75, 99]%.

Quality of Life

Command text has been updated to be more readable with emojis.

New command: stats

Outputs some lifetime statistics for your account.

New command: level

Shows your Hero Level, Title, and Leaderboard Rank.

Shows the Points required to achieve the next Hero Level.

Shows the Friendship Bonuses added by Hero Level.

Changed command: points

Is now a synonym for the level command.

This command was becoming too crowded, so it has now been fully split up between stats, level, and item.

New command: dog

Outputs information about the dog.

Level

XP to Next Level

Bone

Friendship / Armor / Kick Immunity

Ascendancy (And its effects)

Digging Frenzy now shows up as a timed buff (Suggested by Qwerty)

Digging Frenzy, and Lockdown buffs have been moved into a new part of the screen that will show up as ‘Realm Modifiers’.

Any modifiers that do not directly impact the Dog will be shown here.

Lifetime Gold is now a tracked statistic for all players, and will display in the stats command.

Game Balance

The minimum dog leave time has been increased to 30 seconds, from 10 seconds.

In the world of stream delays, 10 seconds was essentially instant.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue where the item command would trigger if ‘item’ was in any part of your sentence.

Item code font should display properly now (It was being cut off before)

Fixed an issue where the feedback for dug up items would change facing with the character it was attached to.

Fixed an issue where the incorrect number of Friendship added could be displayed in game after a pet.